"Until someone dominates with a long putter, what's the concern?"

Steve DiMeglio looks at the long putter/anchoring debate and features a spirited defense from job creator Paul Azinger

Paul Azinger doesn't understand the backlash against the long putter. Azinger, now a golf analyst and a part-time player on the Champions Tour when healthy, first used a belly putter in a mixed-team event in 1999. The following year, he won the Sony Open in Hawaii by seven shots using the belly putter (he won his other 16 professional events — including the 1993 PGA Championship — using a conventional-length putter).

"Until someone dominates with a long putter, what's the concern?" Azinger said. "The gripe used to be that no one could win a major with the belly putter because it was a foreign concept. Now all of a sudden a guy wins a major with it, and now it's an issue?

"That's crazy."

I'm not sure I'm following his logic.

If someone dominates the game with a belly putter, then it's possibly a concern?

Shouldn't the role of the governing bodies be to anticipate an issue before it arises? Or to recognize when bracing a putter against your body is not a stroke before allowing it to become widely used?